Try opening a command prompt and typing "tnsping {yourTNSname}" (without the
braces)

That should tell you if your machine is set up correctly and will also show
you which parameter files are being used. Check your files have the
required entry.

Tim.

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"prepotency" wrote
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I'm dealing with updating some old programs (vba) from an oracle server
and then getting them to run and interface with our new mysql server.
The problem is, I just can't get excel and access to interface with
this oracle 8i service. Does anyone know anything about 8i or oracle
in general when it comes to connecting to their odbc services? How can
I get Oracle 8i ODBC Drivers working and connecting to the "CMSP"
service on my network? It is not working and just says that "TNS could
not resolve the connect identifier specified". However I now all the
info is correct because we have other computers on the network that can
connect to this service... help!

G


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